Astronomical winter begins this Sunday and will have two eclipses
The new season will begin at 16:03 and end on March 20, 2026, with the beginning of spring. The eclipses will not be visible from Euskal Herria.
The astronomical winter will begin tomorrow, December 21, at 4:03 p.m., according to estimates by the Spanish Astronomical Observatory. The season will be 88 days and 23 hours and will end on March 20, 2026, with the start of spring.
Precisely, the weather will look like winter from tomorrow: cold and snow have been announced.
There will be two eclipses, one solar eclipse and the other lunar eclipse. Unfortunately neither of them will be visible from the Basque Country. The annular solar eclipse will take place on February 17 and will be visible from the Antarctic, the Antarctic and the South Indian Ocean. The lunar eclipse will take place on March 3. America, East Asia and Oceania.
Not eclipses, but we'll be able to see the two winter star rains in our latitude: the Ursida on December 22, and the Quadrants on January 3.
In addition, by nightfall the planet Saturn will be visible during the winter, and from the beginning of January, Jupiter, Venus will join the two from mid-February. As the months go on, Saturn will approach the Sun, and at the beginning of March it will disappear from the evening sky.
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